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European Stability Mechanism Bill 2012: Report and Final Stages (20 Jun 2012)

Joe Higgins: Yes.

European Stability Mechanism Bill 2012: Report and Final Stages (20 Jun 2012)

Joe Higgins: Yes.

European Stability Mechanism Bill 2012: Report and Final Stages (20 Jun 2012)

Joe Higgins: I repeat my outright opposition to the Bill which I opposed on the earlier Stages. It is clear that it represents a continuation of the general policy of the European Union and the European Central Bank to offload the consequences of the crisis within the European financial markets onto the shoulders of working and poor people throughout the Union. That policy which has been most notably...

Written Answers — Medicinal Products: Medicinal Products (20 Jun 2012)

Joe Higgins: Question 139: To ask the Minister for Defence if he will confirm that those members of the Defence Forces who suffer from contraindications to the drug Lariam have never been and are not prescribed that drug within the Defence Forces. [29890/12]

Written Answers — Medicinal Products: Medicinal Products (20 Jun 2012)

Joe Higgins: Question 140: To ask the Minister for Defence if he will explain the continued prescribing of Lariam to the Defence Forces in view of the major neuropsychiatric side-effects from Lariam that have been detailed, including the risk of suicide; his views on whether its prescription to members of the Defence Forces deployed to areas with malaria risk should be discontinued. [29891/12]

Medicinal Products (21 Jun 2012)

Joe Higgins: Question 18: To ask the Minister for Defence if he will explain the continued giving of anti-malaria drug, Lariam, to soldiers in the Defence Forces in view of the fact that the US army has discontinued its use and the numerous cases of neuropsychiatric side-effects including incidences of suicide. [29923/12]

Medicinal Products (21 Jun 2012)

Joe Higgins: Question 22: To ask the Minister for Defence if he will commit to carrying out a study to compare the incidences of suicide amongst Irish soldiers who were prescribed Lariam as opposed to those soldiers that have not received Lariam. [29924/12]

Cabinet Committees (26 Jun 2012)

Joe Higgins: Question 10: To ask the Taoiseach the number of Cabinet Committee meetings he has attended since Easter. [25364/12]

Cabinet Committees (26 Jun 2012)

Joe Higgins: What is the relationship between Cabinet sub-committees, individual Ministers and the Government? With regard to the Cabinet sub-committee on economic recovery and jobs, for example, who makes policy on the economy, the public sector and public expenditure? Does the Cabinet sub-committee make policy or is it the Government as a whole? Perhaps it is made by individual Ministers on the hoof,...

Cabinet Committees (26 Jun 2012)

Joe Higgins: -----demanding sackings in the public sector and cuts in the wages of low and middle-income public servants whose pay has already been cut by 15% in recent years? Is it the case, by any chance, that the Taoiseach is going into a Cabinet sub-committee with Labour Party Ministers while having the Minister, Deputy Varadkar, fly kites for Fine Gael to see what further increments in austerity...

Cabinet Committees (26 Jun 2012)

Joe Higgins: -----which have disgracefully attacked and undermined them? Is it appropriate that a Minister would lend to that, especially given that an OECD report in 2008 found that the public sector in this country was very modest in terms of the proportion of gross domestic product taken up by it?

Cabinet Committees (26 Jun 2012)

Joe Higgins: I am interested in the chain of command and, in particular, the chain of policy-making.

Cabinet Committees (26 Jun 2012)

Joe Higgins: I have a brief supplementary question. How does what the Taoiseach has just said relate to the actions and activities of individual Ministers? Are Ministers in this Government free to make significant criticism by implication of Government policy?

Cabinet Committees (26 Jun 2012)

Joe Higgins: Is that not what the Minister, Deputy Varadkar, has done? Does the Taoiseach encourage it?

Cabinet Committees (26 Jun 2012)

Joe Higgins: It relates to the workings of Government policy.

Cabinet Committees (26 Jun 2012)

Joe Higgins: With respect, I have sat here since 3.40 p.m.

Cabinet Committees (26 Jun 2012)

Joe Higgins: The other Deputies are playing a game with the Ceann Comhairle. I could put down ten questions along the same lines, but I do not want to waste his time.

Cabinet Committees (26 Jun 2012)

Joe Higgins: The other Deputies asked the same question in ten different ways.

Cabinet Committees (26 Jun 2012)

Joe Higgins: Anybody could do that.

Constitutional Convention (26 Jun 2012)

Joe Higgins: Question 34: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on any recent developments with the establishment of the Constitutional Convention. [25365/12]